British stunner Kate Beckinsale is negotiations with Millennium/Nu Image to star in director Brad Anderson’s (The Call) Eliza Graves Stonehearst Asylum, a psychological thriller based on the 1945 Edgar Allan Poe story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.”

Beckinsale will play Eliza Graves, a patient at a mental institute overrun by its inmates, now posing as doctors. A Harvard Medical School graduate arrives at the facility and falls so hard for Graves that he doesn’t realize he’s surrounded by psychos.

THR reports that production on the film is slated to begin on June 21 in Bulgaria. Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli and blow job enthusiast Mel Gibson are listed as producers. Genre babe and former Playboy model Christa Campbell serves as an executive producer.

Beckinsale is coming off last year’s Total Recall remake and Underworld: Awakening, the fourth entry in the popular franchise.